Drawing on the spectacular resources of the Norton Simon collections, the exhibition explores the wealth of aesthetic and
conceptual artistic strategies that challenge the shortsighted view of still life as simply an art of imitation.
Not exact matches
They represented several generations of Chicago - based artists who apply activist intentions,
conceptual strategies, and experimental
artistic approaches to complex social issues; they epitomize a larger «critical mass» of peers who have sustained and invigorated this kind of critical art practice in Chicago.
You are a
conceptual artist even if you deploy a variety of formal
strategies to achieve your
artistic aims.
Done outside the
strategies of trendy art — Minimalism, Pop, Abstract Expressionism and
Conceptual — and bypassing «
artistic» skills and values, his «Bad» paintings, like others in the show, were consciously naïve.
After a prologue including other examples of radical, monochrome paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt, Singular Forms explores how these parallel
artistic strategies were manifest in Minimalist and
Conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s through the work of Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
In Sharon Lockhart I Noa Eshkol, Lockhart synthesizes the main elements of Eshkol's practice, collapsing dance, theory,
artistic practice, and
conceptual strategy within a series of closely interrelated works.
The catalog contains a foreword by Dean Anthony Vidler that places Slutzky's paintings in dialogue with his seminal essay, Transparency: Literal and Phenonmenal, (written with Colin Rowe in 1955); an interview with Slutzky by Emmanuel J. Petit that discusses the painter's critical
strategies of
artistic production; an essay by Robert C. Morgan that examines Slutzky's
conceptual position in the art historical tradition of Leon Battista Alberti and Josef Albers; and an essay by Robert Slutzky with Joan Ockman on metaphor in his work.
She employs
conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from
artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism, to explore new representational
strategies that examine and interrogate the allegorical character of the present political moment.
Throughout the twentieth century the line has been a paradigm of avant - gardist
artistic strategies to represent the world in a more abstract and even
conceptual way.